- 300 people reported Dead and several people buried in landslide
- State of emergency at nuclear plant after cooling systems fail
- Ship carrying 100 passengers swept away by tsunami
- Physicist Describes event as one of history's 'great quakes'
- Buildings rocked in China's capital Beijing, 1,500 miles away
- Tsunami warning for whole of Pacific with Hawaii on standby
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The sixth largest earthquake in history today Devastated Japan and sent a catastrophic 33 foot tsunami hurtling across the Pacific Ocean.
People were forced to flee for their lives as the massive wave bore Down on them, sweeping away everything in its path.
This afternoon, the Japanese Declared a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima after the 8.9 quake caused the cooling system to fail.
Meanwhile, a ship carrying 100 people was swept away by the tsunami. Their fate is unknown.
Terrifying: The tsunami slams into the shore line along Iwanuma in northern Japan after the 8.9 eathquake struck today (March 11, 2011)
Overwhelmed: The tsunami engulfs a residential area in Natori, Miyagi
Tsunami warnings have been issued across the entire Pacific, as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West Coast.
Hawaii and a number of low-lying islands including Guam were braced for impact within the coming hours. The Red Cross has warned that the tsunami is higher than many of the islands themselves.
Many people were panic buying in stores and stocking up on petrol as the wave sped thousands of miles across the sea.
The tsunami which struck Sendai on the northeaster coast of Japan which has a population of about one million.
Cataclysmic: A small fishing vessel is Dragged towards the vortex of a whirlpool formed by tsunami waves at a port in Oarai, in the state of Ibaraki
Washed away: These cars were about to be shipped from Hitachinaka City but instead were washed away by the flood
Closed: Sendia Airport in north-east Japan was one of the first places to be swamped by the tsunami that raced inland following the quake